On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:43:07 -0700, Nathan Coulson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lately, I have been noticing that there seems to be a lot of traffic
> on my network, and I wanted to pinpoint the source.
>
> is there any packages that can break down how much up/down traffic is
> being used per mac address? (Running on a WRT54G Linksys Router, w/
> 4MB flash storage)
# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:CF:DA:40
inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:123 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:58605 (57.2 KiB) TX bytes:13766 (13.4 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3471816 (3.3 MiB) TX bytes:3471816 (3.3 MiB)
Note the last line of output which summarizes the RX (down) and
TX (up) traffic. I'm not sure when each of those gets reset,
but probably on a reboot.
ifconfig comes from the net-tools package.
Regards,
Matt.
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